So in Greek Mythology, when a baby of some consequence is born, the oracle is consulted. The oracle then says something along the lines of “Baby Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother.” Then the parents freak out, send the baby away, and later, when the baby is an adult, the baby freaks [...]

Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell will step in and finish playing Heath Ledger’s role in the new Terry Gilliam film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I’m intrigued. The recent Bob Dylan biopic, I’m Not There, played with the same technique, but on purpose. The fact that Heath Ledger died is forcing Gilliam to [...]

Energy Bulletin put up this map last year. I’ve spent the last year looking at it and shaking my head over and over again. [Who has the oil?] Packing tape art. Beautiful. Brilliant. Tedious to make, I’m sure.

The Golden Globes will now be an hour long press conference. That means no snazzy outfits. No terrible speeches. No crying celebrities. Last night, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report were brilliant. I thoroughly enjoyed Jon Stewart’s NAMBLA reference. New Hampshire. I’m looking at you. Right now. Don’t disappoint. I can only wade in [...]

Beavers are going to be released into the Scottish wild for the first time in 500 years. David Windmill, Chief Executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said: “We are very keen to see this trial go ahead. “We will work with all the various stakeholders involved in the project to make it a [...]

I am building websites. Some are pretty, some are cute. Some just are. I’m not particularly brilliant at my side-gig, I’m not some giant design firm or anything like that, but I have to say, I do the basics all right. People like the clean, simple designs and I like the clean, simple designs. But [...]

A student in Pennsylvania is assigned detention for using “firefox.exe,” a “better” browser. I am, of course, fully in support of the school’s decision to assign this student detention. Obviously we cannot have students working on “better” browsers. What is “better” than the standard browser installed in an operating system? Obviously the operating system knows [...]

The BBC wastes a lot of money sending some asshat to Colombia to say… nothing. He offers no new insight. Nothing. Wait! The station guard did not come to work on the day Gabriel Garcia Marquez came back to his hometown? Don’t worry, London will come a-calling. Both Lovett College at Rice University and Posvar [...]

I have spent the last three hours (and by “three,” I mean five), “productinating.” This is a special word I have coined, meaning “avoiding immediate work for minor, lesser work that could be postponed, and in fact should be postponed immediately.” Like cleaning my closet instead of writing a paper that’s due. Like balancing my [...]